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#147752 - 10/03/2003 05:31 When good power supplies go bad...
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

Now that is not a nice thing to do to someone first thing on a Monday morning.

Drive to work, player is functioning normally. Slip it into the dock at the office. Try to get to it via hijack. No response. Hmm... Ping it. No response. Look at the dock - no standby light.

Oh, now what?!?!?!

Try plugging the power directly to the player - no good. Plug in a different outlet - no good.

Given my recent history of damage and repair, I start getting a bit worried. Fortunately, I had a spare power supply at the office. Plugged it in and there's Tux.

Has anyone else had any problems with the original empeg Mark 2 power supplies going bad? These are the "sunpower" external brick to the standard computer (I forgot the plug model) three prong adapter.

Note: I don't need a replacement adapter - I have spares.
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#147753 - 10/03/2003 06:30 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Out of the five SunPower supplies I have owned two of them are dead.
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#147754 - 10/03/2003 08:02 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
Chimaera
enthusiast

Registered: 10/09/2002
Posts: 285
Loc: DFW Area, Texas, US
I managed to break one too, I accidentally touched the case of the empeg with the plug while inserting it, the USB cable was already plugged in, so I guess it shorted it out that way.

Results USB hub, PSU and the Empeg were fine, Sunpower PSU was dead, empeg now running off an old Toshiba Laptop PSU I had lying around.
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#147755 - 10/03/2003 08:09 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
DeadFire
addict

Registered: 30/05/2002
Posts: 695
My original power supply went bad, as well. No clue as to why, though. David (formerly of empeg support) sent me a replacement and I haven't had a problem since.

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#147756 - 10/03/2003 08:40 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
fusto
addict

Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
1 of my 2 went bad in the first 2 months of ownership.
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#147757 - 10/03/2003 08:46 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
JBjorgen
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
Not a single one of my two-prong US power supplies have had a problem. They're easier to haul around anyway.
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#147758 - 10/03/2003 09:05 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
oliver
addict

Registered: 02/04/2002
Posts: 691
i lost my brick that came with my mark2a, but my mark1 sunpower block is still going strong!
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#147759 - 10/03/2003 18:52 Re: When good power supplies go bad... [Re: pgrzelak]
drakino
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
Mine died about a month ago. Was rather disappointing, since I had about a 15 foot cord on it to get it to an outlet (my cube is not set up for the amount of stuff I have plugged in). I still need to get a replacement at Radio Shack, as my extra power brick from there that I bought for my Mark 1 is not providing enough juice for a two drive unit any more.

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